Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a debate he upheld the Single Tax against Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became editor of the puny Social Democratic Herald, changed it to the Milwaukee Leader, developed it into...
...basin and begins to wash her hair. When her sweetheart comes in and hands her the towel she is groping for she pretends to him that everything is all right. She convinces you then that she has complete knowledge of her part, and you accept without much argument the later scenes in which, marrying a mild fellow ashore, she finally molds herself to convention...
Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise...
...their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws. For the Canadian Government to refuse clearance papers to liquor laden vessels is the only restrictive measure that would have any real effect." There the international argument rested, temporarily...
There is no argument but that the game has changed since "Home Run" Baker mad? his name by knocking 12 homeruns during the season of 1913. "Babe" Ruth knocked 60 in 1927. Young Outfielder Klein had hit 29 this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs...